General Discussion

and it was a novel about self deception.

If it had been the male model of a young teenager seducing a vulnerable old man, that old man would simply have replaced her with another thirteen year old seductress when Lolita decamped to be with a lover she'd chosen. Suicide would not have been in Hunbert's future had simple seduction been all there was to it.

I suspect people will argue over this novel as long as men see a heartless barely pubescent seductress and women see a heartless stepfather who repeatedly raped her. The truth is that Humbert deceived himself completely about everything, whil Lolita herself was as much of a realist as a girl that young can be, trading sex for support.

(By the way, that appeal to the bandwagon fell totally flat. It is a fallacy. It doesn't work)